Slonimsky Book Quotes & Sayings

The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man - and he asks no other man to exist for him. — Ayn Rand

Our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them. — Valentino Braitenberg

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him. — Saint Francis De Sales

My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe. — Simon Critchley

Maybe thats why they hate us.For reminding them that innocence is just an illusion, we're dark and maggoty all the way down tp the bone.Everyone of us. — Dia Reeves

A book is either autobiography or a novel. — Imre Kertesz

I know. I'm sorry. But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is one of mad revolt. — Albert Camus

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby. — Mason Cooley

Why is it we are not constantly awed by the size and majesty of the universe?" "Habit," he said. "We are accustomed to it. I suppose if we had been blind from birth - in both eyes - and could suddenly see, we would be so overwhelmed by a night like this that we would either gaze upward at it until dawn or else cling to the earth, afraid that we were about to fall off. Or perhaps we would simply assume that we were at the center of it all and the lords of all we beheld." The — Mary Balogh

If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing. — Eric Thomas

I have had moderately meaningful relationships in which I invested less time than what I have spent on some BioWare games. — Tom Bissell

I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did. — Juice Newton

It is going to be too easy for things to start feeling normal - especially if you are someone who is not directly impacted by his actions.
So keep reminding yourself:
This is not normal.
Write it on a Post-It note and stick it on your refrigerator, hire a skywriter once a month, tattoo it on your ass.
Because a Klan-backed misogynist internet troll is going to be delivering the next State of the Union address.
And that is not normal.
It is fucked up. — John Oliver